On Thursday 26 December 2002 04:00 am, Tom Parmenter wrote:
Rule or no rule, an empty summary field is bad manners.
You can always cut and paste something from your change. The statement that writing a summary can be more onerous than making the change is ludicrous.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
Not when fixing formatting. Having to fill-in an edit summary would significantly slow me down so I definitely would object to having to perform the needless keystrokes for these mundane changes. However, when I do make an edit worth documenting I do so nearly every time and if anything I over document. This should stay a 'rule to consider' for at least logged-in users.
It would be OK by me if this was a requirement for non-logged-in users (along with taking-away their ability to mark edits as minor). Anything to slow the rate of useless experiment page creation AND give non-logged-in users another reason to log-in or at least use the preview function is a good thing.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
WikiKarma payment. Have you had your Wiki today? http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Ritts (new)